It's so refreshing to hear this. Even when I was less educated, his smugness annoyed me SO MUCH that it made me feel like "If actual cosmologists are like this, I couldn't stand them anyway." It made science and the community feel very unattractive, since his marketing puts him all over the place where the tag "science" appears.

He talks like a fedora-sporting moderator from a ~2006 atheist-reason-rational-skeptics-or-else forum. As if he personally has already unlocked all the secrets of the universe and if your sci-fi movie isn't perfectly adhering to known science you're an absolute buffoon.

Sadly Bill Nye seems kinda similar, and I even got to meet him in person. He was rather irked that people wanted to get pictures and autographs with him long before the symposium even started. (Despite being lauded as a hero by countless inquisitive children and all)

TL;DR: Despite the unrelenting tide of anti-intellect, I'm glad there's a lot of serious scientists who aren't just in it to lord it over everybody else.